FEMA chief says he would 'never intentionally run a program incorrectly'

Tyler Houlton, a spokesman for Homeland Security, FEMA's parent agency, referred questions to the inspector general's office, which didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

Numerous Trump administration officials have been accused of improperly using taxpayer money and government resources for personal benefit. The investigation includes, but may not be limited to, travel using government resources, and that would include the administrator's travel in government vehicles on the taxpayer's dime, the source told CNN.

FEMA, the agency in charge of coordinating the federal response to Florence, was criticized previous year for its handling of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

"What concerns me the most is trying to get to the people who didn't evacuate and that's incredibly hard to do, so we can't put our own people in danger", said administrator Brock Long, who spoke to CBS News right before he went to brief the president.

Since he took control of FEMA past year, Long has allegedly been using a government driver to take him home.

Long seemed to have confirmed the investigation during a briefing on Thursday, saying that his office will "continue to fully cooperate with any investigation".

Nalepa added that Long was now focused on FEMA's work "preparing for, responding to, and recovering from Hurricane Florence and other active tropical systems".

"All questions about any potential investigation by the Office of the Inspector General should be directed to the IG".

The DHS IG is examining whether Long misused government vehicles and personnel for his six-hour drives between his home in North Carolina and FEMA headquarters in Washington, DC, Politico reported.

Long reportedly began having a government driver take him home since he took control of FEMA previous year.

"Bottom line is if we made mistakes in the way the program was run then we will work with the OIG to get those corrected". The administrator's trips home to North Carolina have also drawn the ire of his boss, DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who reportedly confronted him about them this summer.

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Unlike the president's tweets, officials have assured that system will not be used for political messages. There will be an initial test of the presidential alert system on Thursday, Sept. 20 at 2:18 p.m.

The impact of storm surge on the coast will depend on whether the storm's arrival coincides with high tide. A Hurricane Warning means that hurricane conditions are expected somewhere within the warning area.

Florence was gaining strength in the warm waters of the Atlantic and expected to make landfall sometime Friday morning. Maximum wind speeds were 140mph with hurricane-force winds extending up to 40 miles (65km) from the centre.

Evacuation orders have been lifted in several coastal SC counties as Florence continues to dump rain on the state. A wind gust at the Wilmington airport was clocked at almost 170km/h, the highest since Hurricane Helene in 1958.

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Paciente also cautioned residents that even if the typhoon weakens after making landfall, it will remain incredibly destructive. Ninia Grace Abedes abandoned her bamboo hut and took her four children to a school building serving as an emergency shelter.

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Spanish moss waved in the trees as the winds picked up in Wilmington, and floating docks bounced atop swells at Morehead City. Emergency declarations were in force in Georgia, South and North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia.

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Brock Long, the head of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), warned that Florence could "kill a lot of people". Public health experts have estimated that almost 3,000 perished because of the effects of Maria.

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In Wilmington, near where the eye of the hurricane touched down, trees and power lines were down and many windows had been broken. By 3 p.m., more than 15.5 inches had accumulated in Moorehead City, the National Hurricane Center reported .